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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the writer of the second Preface famous for?
(a) Writing.
(b) Being a slave master.
(c) Being an anti-slavery orator.
(d) Being a slave trainer.

2. Who gave the anti-slavery speech in Massachusetts that is described in the Preface?
(a) Daniel O'Connell.
(b) Paul Davenport.
(c) Frederick Douglass.
(d) William Smith.

3. Garrison builds up Douglass as an icon of what movement in the Preface?
(a) Abolitionist.
(b) Fundamentalist.
(c) Democratic.
(d) Religious.

4. Who helped Frederick Douglass with his writing of this narrative?
(a) James McAlister.
(b) Daniel O'Connell.
(c) William L. Garrison.
(d) No one.

5. When was the opening Preface written?
(a) 1845.
(b) 1849.
(c) 1865.
(d) 1902.

Short Answer Questions

1. What type of writing is the second Preface?

2. Garrison refers to Douglas as a man with what, in his Preface (x)?

3. What is Douglass irritated with his mother for in Chapter 1?

4. How many years was Daniel O'Connell a slave in Africa?

5. To whom does the author compare Douglass in the second Preface?

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